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AWS Management and Monitoring Tools Flashcards

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  1. What is AWS Systems Manager used for?

    Answer: Providing operational visibility and control over your AWS and on-premises infrastructure

    AWS Systems Manager provides a unified interface for managing EC2 instances and on-premises servers, including automation, patching, and configuration management.

  2. What is the primary purpose of a CloudWatch Alarm?

    Answer: To notify you or take automated actions when a metric crosses a defined threshold

    A CloudWatch Alarm watches a metric and transitions between states (OK, ALARM, INSUFFICIENT_DATA) to trigger notifications or automatic actions when thresholds are breached.

  3. Which AWS service provides Infrastructure as Code using an open-source framework with higher-level abstractions than raw CloudFormation?

    Answer: AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

    AWS CDK allows you to define cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages like Python, TypeScript, or Java, which synthesizes to CloudFormation templates.

  4. What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

    Answer: A managed platform service that automatically handles deployment, scaling, and health monitoring of web applications

    AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that lets you deploy and scale web applications by simply uploading code, without managing underlying infrastructure.

  5. Which AWS service is used to send notifications to subscribers via email, SMS, or other endpoints when events occur?

    Answer: Amazon SNS

    Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) is a managed pub/sub messaging service that delivers messages to subscribers via email, SMS, Lambda, SQS, or HTTP endpoints.

  6. What is the difference between Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS?

    Answer: SQS is a pull-based message queue for decoupling services; SNS is a push-based pub/sub notification service

    SQS is a message queue where consumers poll for messages (decoupling producers and consumers), while SNS pushes messages to multiple subscribers simultaneously.